Tag Archives: Stasi

How A Coffee Shortage Almost Ended East Germany

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Lawrence Person

East Germany was widely cited as the most successful of the Warsaw Pact puppet states, the one whose industrious nature “made communism work.” That was never true, but East Germany did seem to function more efficiently than the rest of … Continue reading →

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Why Commies Couldn’t Do Semiconductors

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Asianometry has an interesting video up about East Germany expensive, strenuous efforts to catch up to the west in semiconductor manufacturing technology. Spoiler: They didn’t. Some takeaways: “In the late 1980s, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, went all … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 2, 2021

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Lawrence Person

Greetings, and welcome to a Good Friday LinkSwarm! I had the day off, so I slept ridiculously late, which is why you’re getting this in the late afternoon evening. “9 Crazy Examples of Unrelated Waste and Partisan Spending in Biden’s … Continue reading →

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How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Lawrence Person

I still don’t feel like I have a good handle on the Tunisian Revolution yet. (Indeed, my fingers keep wanting to type “Tunesian,” which suggests a government based on iTunes…) Jihadi? Non-Jihadi? Both? (Probably the the last.) But the fact … Continue reading →

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